> It's probably possible, but expensive as always. Frankly, I doubt anyone but a rich eccentric would have the money to get into SoC design in their garage. My

> It's probably possible, but expensive as always. Frankly, I doubt anyone but a rich eccentric would have the money to get into SoC design in their garage. My university acquired the resources to run a semiconductor class in the form of some antique (70s vintage) silicon lab equipment from Micron. Even though this stuff was brand new before I was born, Micron charged them in the neighborhood of $200k for each device. That's six machines for a total of $1.2 million. And that doesn't even encompass the whole cost of what you'd need to get a proper semiconductor development environment - you'd still need a cleanroom, electrical and gas hookups, chemical certification (you need all sorts of nasty stuff to make semiconductors - HF in particular is quite common in fabrication, and has horrifying effects on exposed skin when mishandled), etc. Yeah, sorry - with all respect, I don't think anyone's gonna be starting a semiconductor company in their garage any time soon.